Developer Rock Square Thunder and Broken Mirror Games have dropped the first official gameplay trailer for their craft-focused, isometric Survival Horror title I Hate This Place. The new trailer gives players a taste of the monsters and warped realities found within the game, all wrapped in a comic book art style with a heavy helping of an ’80s horror vibe.
Inspired by Skybound’s Eisner Award-nominated comic book series created by writer Kyle Starks and artist Artyom Topilin, players take on the role of Elena, whose fight for survival begins when she and her friend unwittingly summon a malevolent force. Outmatched and hunted in a hostile world, players will need to stay vigilant, loot their surroundings, and pick their battles carefully against formidable foes, many of which hunt you by sound.
Players will have to scavenge every corner of Rutherford Ranch to stay alive. From haunted forests, a derelict town, to infested bunkers. Explore a world teeming with danger as you gather vital resources, craft essential gear, upgrade your campsite, and rebuild outposts to have somewhere to hide.
I Hate This Place features a dynamic day-night cycle that changes the world. Use the daylight to explore, scavenge supplies, craft what you need, and prepare for what’s coming. When night falls, the real nightmares come out to play. More enemies appear, stronger and more aggressive than before. The landscape becomes harder to navigate with just your flashlight. If worse comes to worst, your best hope is to find shelter and hunker down till morning.
To survive, stealth and combat go hand-in-hand, as many of the twisted creatures in Rutherford Ranch hunt and stalk you by sound alone. Brute force will often just get you killed. Instead, you must use sound to your advantage, luring creatures away from your path or cleverly leading them straight into deadly traps you laid.
Look for I Hate This Place to release Q4 2025 on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and the Nintendo Switch.
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